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ZOOTAXA65Schweitzer, D.F. & Master, L.L. (1987) Nicrophorus americanus (American burying beetle): resultsof a global status survey. The Nature Conservancy, Eastern Heritage Task Force, Boston, MA13 pp. (unpublished report: biology, conservation)Scopoli, J.A. (1763) Entomologia Carniolica : exhibens insecta Carnioliae indigena et distributa inordines, genera, species, varietates, methodo Linnaeana / Ioannis Antonii Scopoli. Vindobonae: Typis Ioannis Thomae Trattner, 1763; [xxxvi], 420 p. (checklist)Scott, M.P. (1989) Male parental care and reproductive success in the burying beetle Nicrophorusorbicollis. Journal of Insect Behavior, 2(1), 133-137. (biology, behavior) [Broods that receivedbiparental care were both smaller and had lower offspring weight [possible artifact?]] [!N, S]Scott, M.P. (1990) Brood guarding and the evolution of male parental care in burying beetles.Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology, 26(1), 31-39. (biology, behavior) [!S]Scott, M.P. (1994a) Competition with flies promotes communal breeding in the burying beetle,Nicrophorus tomentosus. Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology, 34, 367-373. (biology, ecology,behavior) [On both medium and large carcasses, pairs rearing broods on flyblown carcasseshad fewer young than pairs on clean carcasses or foursomes on flyblown carcasses.][!S]Scott, M.P. (1994b) The benefit of paternal assistance in intra- and interspecific competition for theburying beetle, Nicrophorus defodiens. Ethology Ecology & Evolution, 6(4), 537-543. (biology,behavior) [Paternal care reduces the probability that the carcass will be usurped by a conspecificcompetitor.] [!S]Scott, M.P. (1996) Communal breeding in burying beetles. American Scientist, 84, 376-382. (popularreview) [Review of aspects of communal breeding.] [!S]Scott, M.P. (1997) Reproductive dominance and differential ovicide in the communally breedingburying beetle Nicrophorus tomentosus. Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology, 40(5), 313-320. (biology, behavior) [Influences of size of beetles and carcasses on communal breeding.]Scott, M.P. (1998a) Facultative adjustment of the duration of parental care by burying beetles. Journalof Insect Behavior, 11(4), 597-603. (biology, behavior) [Males raised in lab in dense groupsprovided longer care than males raised in isolation (cues for detection of population density).][!S]Scott, M.P. (1998b) The ecology and behavior of burying beetles. Annual Review of Entomology,43, 595-618. (biology, review of: ecology, behavior) [Lengthy review of literature on Nicrophorusbehavior.] [!S]Scott, M.P., & Gladstein, D.S. (1993) Calculating males? An empirical and theoretical examinationof the duration of paternal care in burying beetles. Evolutionary Ecology, 7(4), 362-378. (biology,behavior) [Variables: size of carcass & probability of usurpation.] [!S]Scott, M.P. & Traniello, J.F.A. (1987) Behavioural cues trigger ovarian development in the buryingbeetle, Nicrophorus tomentosus. Journal of Insect Physiology, 33(10), 693-696. (biology,behavior, physiology)Scott, M.P. & Traniello, J.F.A. (1989) Guardians of the Underworld. Natural History, 6, 32-36.(popular review) [!S]Scott, M.P. & Traniello, J.F.A. (1990) Behavioural and ecological correlates of male and femaleparental care and reproductive success in burying beetles (Nicrophorus spp.). Animal Behaviour,39(2), 274-283. (biology, ecology, behavior) [!S]Scott, M.P., Traniello, J.F.A., & Fetherston, I.A. (1988) [“1987”] Competition for prey between antsand burying beetles (Nicrophorus spp.): Differences between northern and southern temperatesites. Psyche (Cambridge, Massachusetts), 94(3-4), 325-331. (biology, ecology) [Southernsites had more intense competition with ants.] [!S]Scott, M.P., Trumbo, S.T., Neese, P.A., Bailey, W.D., & Roe, M.R. (2001) Changes in biosynthesisand degradation of juvenile hormone during breeding by burying beetles: a reproductive orsocial role? Journal of Insect Physiology, 47(3), 295-302. (biology, behavior, physiology)288 © 2002 Magnolia PressSIKES ET AL.